Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Health
Junior doctors strike: Anger grows over discrimination in new contracts
Film length: 6:15 Anger grows on another solid and determined strike by junior doctors at the start of April, as the department of health admits that changes in the contracts will disadvantage women.
Living Wage/Basic Rights
McStrike!
Film length: 14:14 The first ever McDonalds strike in the UK was a huge success as workers in Crayford and Cambridge walked out to join thousands of other fast wood workers protesting around the globe […]
Education
6th form colleges: on strike for survival
Running Time: 2min 19 sec Four thousand teachers at 77 sixth form colleges are on strike – not just for a pay rise in line with inflation, but for the survival of the entire sector. […]